Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Child-welfare groups and educators in several areas are mounting public- education campaigns aimed at stopping the "report-card reflex." The programs, modeled after one begun in Houston by the Child Abuse Prevention Council, use newspaper ads, TV and radio announcements, school flyers mailed to students' homes and brochures inserted into report cards. All these materials contain the same basic message for parents: raising voices or fists is not the answer to raising grades...
Real estate experts have accused the FSLIC of being inept at dispensing with property in a speedy but careful manner. The problem, they charge, is that the agency is riddled with bureaucrats who cannot make sharp, quick business judgments. Says Sam Pierce, a Houston-based adviser to the thrifts: "The FSLIC doesn't know a good deal from a bad one. They don't have the necessary brainpower or manpower...
...meeting and The Gong Show, the Apollo audience is the true star. A favored artist -- say, the 300-lb. gent whose falsetto carries him through an all-stops-out aria from Dreamgirls -- wins whooping applause from this Colosseum of 1,500 self-appointed Caesars. Less appreciated acts -- the Whitney Houston clones and clumsy break dancers -- are pelted with catcalls until a figure known as the Executioner darts across the stage in clown garb and chases them into the wings. Usually the performers soldier on to the end, broken but unbowing. Surely, as starmaker or heartbreaker, every audience member...
Until recently the clientele for Sun workstations has consisted mainly of scientists and engineers. But gradually other users in search of higher performance have been attracted to the machines. The Houston Chronicle has 65 Sun computers in place for its printers and artists, and will soon add 35 more; Greenwich Capital, a Connecticut bond-trading firm, uses five dozen Sun machines...
...York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Richard Behar, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Naushad S. Mehta, Marguerite Michaels, Priscilla Painton, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: S.C. Gwynne Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: James Carney Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Cristina Garcia, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman